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Comment by 1Ska

This is probably a good mainhand or offhand for rogues. It has pretty decent stats far as I can tell, but from a Rogues perspective you can probably use it for either.

Comment by SaxxonPike

Heh, since this last patch hunters have been all over anything that says "increases attack power" on it and passing up other items.

Comment by LoveTrung

rogues shouldent be able to get there hands on this... lol.. but hunters are already way too buff in this recent patch

Comment by zyz1337

Sheaths on your back like thunderfury

Comment by zenmastervex

A great alternative for hemo (which is also easier to get) is the Vindicator's Brand, the exhalted sword from the Aldor. Hemo doesn't need slow speeds, it just needs a good damage range. Yes, it's usually better if it has 2.7 speed or higher, but it's not required, as the Vindicator's Brand has 2.6 and it quite an upgrade from the level 60 GM Longsword.

Comment by Tadhg

The spiteblade's enchant is a stackable glow. Any enchant on this weapon will show, mixed in with the weapon enchant.

e.g: Applied poisons will drip through, Sharpener will make it sparkle.

Comment by Chaosdwarf

Is it me or is there like 5 weps that look like this for BC and the icons

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Comment by Felheim

If you are a full-time hemo rogue, you're not going to be seeing this sword either. Well... not unless you're in a guild where the raid leaders don't give a toss about what their rogues do.

Comment by lavabeard

even casual guilds with raid leaders "who dont give a toss about what their rogues do" kill netherspite.

edit; in response to felheim

Comment by brettski27

I got this sword on Spirestone a few nights ago and went for my 1000th run in black morass for the Latro's shifting sword must say im impressed with the damage with combat spec as a rogue. Was wondering if anyone knows how well a Blinkstrike rivals Spiteblade with a similar offhand. Soon i hope to upgrade to the gladiator's offhand sword 600 more arena points FTW.

Comment by Yougotgot

Looks like they upped the drop rate for this blade. I got mine about 3 weeks ago and it said 3%. Now it is up to just under 7%. Probably more like 10-12%.

Comment by Hesa

Rogue Hemo Sword.Wouldnt hope too much for it though, 6% drop rate is said here. Some say 7-8Anyways I'l will take u a BUNCH of time to get it.This one is not only epic in the color and in the stats but also in the droprate -.-

Comment by genecyde

This item has the same skin as Hope Ender, but for some reason the skins for poisons and enchants don't stack on that, has anyone experienced this with spiteblade or Hope Ender?

Comment by Shada

Appearance-wise, kind of looks like the bastard child of King's Defender and Blazefury, either of which would make a great complimentary offhander to this weapon (though if you have Blazefury, you'll probably have something better in your mainhand).

Comment by beaker4251

Is this sword worthy of a Mongoose enchant? I would get the Void Crystals from our guild bank but we have a limited supply. If not mongoose, what enchant would you go with?

Comment by Curkas

I was just looking through the loot from SSC. and i saw that wowhead have listed this to drop of Lady Vashj. but it DOSENT they will most likely fix it sooner or later.

Comment by noxpox

Very nice weapon, got it on my guilds second Netherspite kill.

Sheaths on the back, looks nice, and has the best or around the best stats for a rogue weapon in Kara. This will be with me even if i upgrade later on. If i do upgrade it will be sittin' in my bank beside my Viskag.

Comment by zgon

Got this beauty yesterday but now I have a "big" problem. I was getting points for Glad Slicer and now I don't know if it's worth to spend 2.6k points on a MH sword. 10 more dps is for sure nice, but will it be worth improvement? Any feedback would be nice :)

Cheers

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Comment by Pingone

Spiteblade use the same graphic as Hope Ender.

Comment by Azp2k32

This is probably the single item I hear the most complaints about not dropping on the forums. Mostly since it's such a big upgrade for non-PvPing rogues compared to what they probably have before (probably a blue if they didn't plan on going Sword spec when they chose Aldor/Scryer). That combined with the fact that Netherspite is one of the last bosses a guild usually clears in Karazhan makes for a lot of annoyed rogues and a few hunters who taunt those rogues with their dual wielded Spiteblades.

Comment by Danieru

Can you equip 2 of this? and if so do they cross on the back?

Comment by Andii

You can wear two, they are not unique. They do cross on your back like the swords from Baron Rivendare.

Comment by Slap

The 7% takes into account dropping two things (although if you add up the probability of all of the drops it comes up to 172ish, which implies that each kill drops 1.7 items, so wowhead might have some bad data). The 7% is number of drops per spite kill, not the probability roll of that item being one of the two drops (which should be 3.5%, but I don't know how Blizz handles conditional probability to avoid getting two of the same items dropping - I would guess they try to avoid this in Kara, although we do know that Tier token drop rates are not conditional - you can get doubles).

ON AVG, given the 7.x% drop rate, one will drop every approx 14 kills, as the number of kills becomes large. The fewer the kills, the less certain we are that we will have 1 drop per 14 kills.

In fact, the likelihood of no drops over 14 straight kills is .93^14, or about .36. So if a hundred raids kill spite for 14 weeks, we expect 36 of those raids to see no spiteblade drops. But overall, we expect to see 100 spiteblades drop among those 1400 kills.

Our statistical expectation is indeed one per 14 kills, but that expectation is very imprecise over 14 weeks. Expectation and confidence in that expectation are two very different things. While our expectation is indeed that one will drop every 14 kills, we know that the actual probability of that occurring is 1-Pr(not dropping).

Saying that the odds of getting it or not getting it after 10 weeks is a coin flip is true, but thinking that since 53% is more than 47% you should get it once every 10 weeks is wrong. You have essentially a 50/50 chance of going 10 weeks without a drop, that's how to understand cumulative probability.

The way to think about drop rates in WoW is simple - show up and if it drops it drops. Just because you've gone 14 weeks without a drop doesn't mean you're "due". Each time you kill him there's a 7% chance it drops. Sometimes you get lucky, other times you are unlucky. The "lucky" people balance out the "unlucky" people to add up to an average 7%

Comment by Chuhck

My guild has killed Netherspite at least 40 times, and we have NEVER seen it drop. On the upside though Heartless from Hex Lord Malacrass in Zul'Aman is now a better alternative and a higher drop rate!

Comment by askeptic

Chuhck hang in there. My guild killed Netherspite for the 20th time last night and it finnaly dropped. Thought I was never going to see it, but I guess 40 is much more.

Heartless is a great MH sword to with a much higher drop rate like you said. Although Skulker's Greaves has a very high drop rate we I still have not seen those.... so I suppose its mainly just all luck.

Anyway, Spiteblade on the back is sexier than Heartless and WoW is 25% stats 75% sexiness so I hope you get spiteblade soon. It is worth the wait.

Comment by djadark

Yeah I have been raiding kara with my shaman (enhancement) for 3 months and I have seen it only drop once. Our combat rogue got it. Then when my shaman was done with kara I started raiding with my Rogue. Second week of Kara BOOM it drop for me. I'm a lucky bastard.

Comment by brotos

You can duel wield this just like in the picture incase you were wondering :).

Comment by ccranford

I have cleared Karazhan since Feb 07 and have never seen this sword drop even once. I certainly wish Blizzard would adjust the drop rate.

Comment by Yggdrassil

My Question...

How good is this compared to S1 MH with mongoose... VS this baby with +20 agi.*cba to put something expensive on it.. still hoping for Heartless soon*

Comment by Zubzubs

This weapon is a very good weapon for rogues, but it is also a very nice weapon for hunters, it offers alot of AP, Stam and Agility, If your lucky enough to see it drop, roll on it, it should go to rogues over hunters but theres a few people who are lucky enough to get Spiteblade x2 for a hunter, it offers...:

28 agility32 Stamina92 Attack Power

Get 20 agility on each of them and you'll be looking at:

68 agility32 stamina92 attack power

Remembering Agility gives AP, usually 1 agility is 1 AP as a hunter and crit chance, it'll add up to about 142 AP, A few Crit % and 32 stamina, they also look very very cool ^^

Legacy VS Spiteblade x2

Legacy offers:

40 agility46 stamina80 attack power8 mp5

Add savagery to it and you'll get:

40 agility46 stamina150 attack power8 mp5

Add 35 agility to it and you'll get:

75 agility46 stamina115 attack powerCritical strike %8 mp5

VS spiteblade of: (Dual 20 agility)

68 agility32 stamina132 attack powerCritical strike %

Although its pretty close, spiteblade would be more AP but less stamina, critical strike chance. Its a personal choice, but dual spiteblades top it due to looks.

Comment by synysterhate

sadly Ive done spite like 40ish times and never got this to drop so good luck aspiring rogues

Comment by Takashidou

I just got The Horseman's Blade on my hunter, since I was the only one in group that could use it. I remember seeing this sword the other day when looking up The Horseman's Blade and was just wondering, is it worth it to try and get this sword on my hunter to DW with THB?

With DW'ing this and THB I'd have the same amount of attack power I did have, perhaps a little more with the agility, and i could always get them enchanted from guildies with more agility, or perhaps intel, which may be better.

Comment by Wisdomsword

Spiteblade is an epic one-handed sword.

This item drops from Netherspite in Karazhan.

When sheathed, it mounts on the back of a player, much like the Hope Ender.

The Horseman's Blade shares its stats, but the Horseman's Blade has the extra ability of summoning hard-hitting Pumpkin Soldiers that attack nearby foes.

Comment by Sykoo

Been running Kara solo on my DK for a few months now. Mainly just to kill Huntsman for a chance at the mount.. Decided to finish the rest of it this week and this actually dropped. Nearly sh*t myself when it did. After running this place on a weekly basis on 4 toons back during BC and never seeing it once let alone hearing it drop on any other runs my guild was doing for alts. Needless to say I hearthed and transmog'd it right away. Will upload a photo with it "enchanted" with my runes when servers get back up from maintenance.

Comment by Brandonly17

The difference between this sword, and The Hope Ender, is that The Hope Ender also has a purple glow on the blade, where The Spite Blade does not.